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Charles W. Howard is the porta-potty king of New York City. The seat of his vast empire is Broad Channel, Queens; from this windswept rock in Jamaica Bay, you can see the lights of Manhattan twinkling across the water. Early every morning, while the city sleeps, dozens of trucks — tagged with WE’RE #1 AT PICKING UP #2 decals — snake through the five boroughs to clean his 18,000 toilets. The company boasts more than $35 million in annual revenue, thanks in part to “salesgirls” who head out each day in the company’s signature Volkswagen Beetles to poach contracts from competitors who are too shy to sell with sex. Charlie himself arrives at work only around midday in a black Cadillac Escalade. Young female dispatchers and clerks cry “Charlie! Charlie!” while men in orange slickers hose down toilets in the yard. On a recent Thursday, the gleaming Escalade stops at a pizzeria, and Charlie, 53, steps out, a bit heavy and wearing a rumpled … [Read more...] about The Porta-Potty King of New York City Faces a Threat to His Throne

The Eagles still have the long road ahead of them. That much was quickly crystal clear when the iconic classic rock ensemble took the stage at New York City's legendary Madison Square Garden on Tuesday, Oct. 9, for the first in a two-show stand there as part of the band's 2018 tour. The current iteration of The Eagles features classic members Don Henley, Joe Walsh and Timothy B. Schmit; late singer and guitarist Glenn Frey, who died in 2016, is represented by the joint efforts of his son, Deacon Frey, and country star Vince Gill. THE DUDE ABIDES: Jeff Bridges tries to save the world with his new movie Tuesday night's show opened on a note of deep solidarity, with the band locked into a six-part harmony on a chilling rendition of Steve Young's "Seven Bridges Road" that quickly turned into a robust country guitar picking session. That was followed, in turn, by Deacon Frey taking lead on a rendering of his father's country rock classic "Take It Easy" that was more … [Read more...] about The Eagles tour: setlist, photos review from New York City

There are some changes this year in New York City's iconic holiday windows, and not all are merry. Lord & Taylor, the iconic Fifth Avenue department store unveiled its very first animated holiday windows in 1937 and they have been an annual tradition ever since. But the building has been sold and Lord & Taylor is set to close so this is the last year for its holiday windows, which will be limited to just two on Fifth Avenue that pay homage to the store's storied past. It's the last season for Bendels, too, so take this chance to check out its creative windows created each year for its Fifth Avenue windows. ► GUIDE: The holidays in NYC 2018 Macy's When: Through Jan. 1, 2019 Where: Herald Square, 34th Street and 7th Avenue What: This year's theme revolves around a cute space-aged character named Sunny the Snowpal. Each of the six Broadway facing windows will feature Sunny in a different holiday scenario, from floating … [Read more...] about What’s in store for New York City’s iconic holiday windows in 2018

He's a mean (and musical) one Just as "The Grinch" comes to big screens, voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch, "Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical" comes to the Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden. See The Green One and his trusty dog, Max, in person. (Little Cindy Lou Who is played by White Plains second-grader Mackenzie Mercer.) Dec. 13 to 30. Starting at $39. Discounts for groups of 20 or more. 866-858-0008. www.msg.com/family. Dickens' ghost story, in one hour "A Christmas Carol at the Merchant’s House, Charles Dickens in New York, 1867," recreates the wildly successful American tour of the man who popularized Christmas with his charming little ghost story. At the Merchant's House in NoHo — the oldest, preserved Victorian home Manhattan — John Kevin Jones reads from Dickens' own script in a fast-paced hour-long performance. (Join Jones, as Dickens, for a pre-show toast in the kitchen, Thursdays through Saturdays starting Dec. 6; and Dec. … [Read more...] about From ‘Grinch’ to Dickens, take in a show in New York City during the holidays

HOLLYWOOD, Calif. – This awards season finds famous faces trading places. As Lady Gaga morphs into a movie star under the lights of “A Star Is Born,” this week a glitter-doused Natalie Portman will be anointed a legit pop star in “Vox Lux” (in theaters Friday in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco, expands to additional cities Dec. 14, including Boston, Chicago, Denver, Detroit and Washington, D.C.). Embodying a pop queen was “kind of a childhood dream, with a hairbrush in front of the mirror,” says the 37-year-old Oscar winner, sitting inside an empty theater just off Hollywood Boulevard. But “Vox Lux” is far from bubblegum fare. The drama tackles the dark underbelly of pop superstardom while simultaneously exploring the prevalence of gun violence across the U.S. "I think all of us as citizens are at the sort of tipping point of saying it’s enough, it’s too much," Portman says. "And it’s not … [Read more...] about Natalie Portman finally fulfills her Madonna-fueled, teenage pop-star dreams in ‘Vox Lux’